In the ensuing centuries, some have taken this conviction as a mandate to abandon received orthodoxy. Others have progressed toward a rigid confessionalism that cements the Reformation itself as a final codification of truth. Between these extremes is the ongoing need of the church to be continually subjecting its beliefs and practices to the renewed scrutiny of Holy Scripture, and restating its truths in ways that faithfully communicate the gospel, advance the mission of the church and empower the people of God. This collection of essays, written by senior theologians and edited by A. T. B. McGowan, practices what it preaches-mining the whole terrain of systematic theology to refresh, renew and yes, even reform the church for its next season.